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Cemeteries, Funeral Home and Obituaries

Gambier Island - Mariners' Rest, a provincially designed site for burial of ashes at sea, is located in Howe Sound in Thornbrough Channel off the west coast of Gambier Island. ​
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Gibson Family Cemetery, Gibsons BC
​Gibsons - Mount Elphinstone Pioneer Cemetery.  Dates back to May 1916.  Plots are no longer sold, but interments of plot owners continue to occur.  First interment was Maggie Lehman, 1919, a teenaged girl who died from Spanish Influenza.  112 memorials
Gibsons - Gibson Family Cemetery.  Land for a family cemetery and a Methodist church was donated by George W. Gibson Sr.  The church is gone and the cemetery is now surrounded by the town visitor center and a small park. 16 memorials



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Mt. Elphinstone Pioneer Cemetery, Gibsons BC
Madeira Park - Forest View Cemetery.  Martha and Martin Warnock donated the cemetery in 1933 in memory of their young son, who was buried there.  217 memorials​
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Forest View Memorial Plaque, Madeira Park BC
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Kleindale Cemetery, Pender Harbour BC
Pender Harbour - Kleindale Cemetery 32 memorials
Roberts Creek - Seaview Cemetery.  Operated by Sunshine Coast Regional District.  1549 memorials
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Sechelt - Sechelt Indian Cemetery.  This cemetery was associated with Our Lady of Lourdes Church. 10 memorials
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Sechelt Indian Cemetery, Sechelt Community Archives, Sechelt BC
Sechelt - St. Hilda's Pioneer Anglican Cemetery.  The cemetery was created in 1923 when the owner of the property, Thomas J. Cook, gave permission for two young children who were not Roman Catholic to be buried there. 258 memorials
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St. Hilda's Pioneer Anglican Cemetery, Sechelt BC
Devlin Funeral Home, Gibsons
The Coast Reporter, Obituaries
see also Genealogy Links and Records
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